283. Michael Strevens — The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
The Michael Shermer Show
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A Little Bit About Einstein and Newton's Theory
Two telescopes, both photographing the stars. What happens? They disagree with one another. One of them brings back results that reflect einstein's predictions quite well. The other one comes back with results that are almost exactly what you would expect if the class of the old classical theory were and einstein were wrong. But there's one more, one more important thing. It was just this frustrating little glutch that caused something to go wrong and the stars went blurry. This is a kind of detail that decides the question between two great theories. By looking at that tiny little detail, ah, you could decide whether einstein or newton is right. And of course, ennington very much
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